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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






2. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






3. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






4. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






5. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






6. Broken down acts.






7. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






8. The organizational form of a literary work.






9. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






10. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






11. The dictionary meaning of a word.






12. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






13. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






14. A strong pause within a line.






15. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






16. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






17. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






18. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






19. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






20. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






21. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






22. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






23. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






24. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






25. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






26. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






27. A four line stanza in a poem.






28. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






29. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






30. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






31. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






32. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






33. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






34. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






35. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






36. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






37. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






38. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






39. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






40. A short saying with a moral.






41. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






42. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






43. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






44. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






45. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






46. The selection of words in a literary work.






47. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






48. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






49. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






50. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.







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